Outside

See also: outside

English

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Proper noun

Outside

1. (slang, US, Alaska) The United States excluding Alaska, (especially) the contiguous 48 states south of Canada.

   She's going to the Outside for Christmas.

   • 1900, Josiah Edward Spurr, Through The Yukon Gold Diggings‎^[1], page 156:

     'When did you leave the Outside?' asked a blue-eyed, blonde, shaggy man. (The Outside means anywhere but Alaska—a man who has been long in the country falls into the idea of considering himself in a kind of a prison, and refers to the rest of the world as lying beyond the door of this.)

   • 2023 July 19, Sine Anahita, “Political float has no place in parade”, in Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Letters to the editor:

     Fairbanks North Star Borough school board candidate Michael Humphrey attempted to import one of the most distasteful elements of the Outside culture wars into Fairbanks on Saturday through his deployment of hate speech targeting transgender children.

Synonyms

• the lower 48
• United States

References

• Tabbert, Russell (1991) Dictionary of Alaskan English‎^[2], The Denali Press, →ISBN, page 30

Anagrams

• dies out, side out, sudoite, tedious